Ticket-holdeb eob railroad-cabs



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TICKET-HOLDER FOR RAILROAD-CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. '19,789, dated March 30, 1858.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LEWIS S. OLMSTED and MYRDN L. lVIIoKLEs, of Aurora,in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Ticket-Holders for Railroad-Oar Seats; and we dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the construction and operation of the same, reference being had tothe annexed drawings, making part of this specification, Figure l beinga perspective view of the ticketholder; Fig. 2, a similar viewexhibiting the interior thereof, the doors being swung open; Fig. 3, asimilar view showing the upper door swung back and a portion of theoperating partsnot exhibited in the other figures.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The ticket-holder may be made of either cast or sheet metal, or of othersuitable material, and containing two compartments, an upper and lower,as seen at (A and B). In

front ofthe upper chamber (A) is a doorv (O) upon which is a lock (D).When this door is opened a slot (E) is exposed in the upper part of thechamber The flooring of this chamber (F) is made movable so that it canslide forward and back by the action of the door (O). Attached to thelower corner of the door (C) is a projection (G) which acts upon one end0f the lever (H). This lever is attached at its center by the pin (I)and its extremity operates the sliding floor (F) of the upper chamber towhich it is attached. The lower chamber (B) has a door in its front uponwhich is a lock, at L. The front plate of the upper chamber has a glassplate (O) so placed that the contents of the chamber can be seen whenthe instrument is closed. Attached to the lower edge of the door (O) isa projection (P) extending along the lower edge of the door, and soplaced as to be in contact with the sliding floor (F). Upon closing thedoor this projection forces back the sliding floor, where it remainsuntil the door is opened and it is forced back to its former position.

The operation is as follows: On opening the door (C) the slot isexposed, and the ticket of the passenger passed through it into theupper chamber and behind the glass plate (O) so that the printing on theticket can be read through the glass. The ticket will then rest upon thesliding floor of the upper chamber. Upon closing the door (C) theprojection (P) upon the lower edge of the door forces back the slidingoor and the ticket then rests upon the projection (P) and still in sightthrough the glass plate. The ticket remains in this lposition until thedoor (O) is opened, when it is dropped into the chamber below bywithdrawing the projection (P). When the door (C) is drawn, Asay -abouthalf way open, the projection (G) upon the lower corner of the door actsupon the lever (H) and thereby upon the sliding floor (F) throwing itforward toits former position under the slot (E). The instrument is thenready to receive another ticket.

The ticket is thus held Secure from both the passenger and conductor andcan only be taken by the person who has the key to the lower chamber,which should be the agent at the station.

What we claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

A ticket-holder composed of two chambers, or compartments, A, B, intothe upper one of which the ticket is placed and exhibited, and thencetransferred to the lower one, in the act of closing and opening the.door of said upper compartment, by means of the movable floor F, andledge, or projection IP, all operating substantially in the manner andfor the purposes herein specified..

LEWIS S. OLMSTED. MYRON L. MIOKLES.

Vitnesses as to signature of L. S. Olm-v sted:

HAsBRoUcK DAVIS, G. WV. BALDWIN. Witnesses as to signature of Myron L.Mickles:

G. W. BALDWIN, JAMES R. I-IosMER.

